<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K2KLawx3iQJOmE64lT_I_jb2RiHzcPEF/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> Продолжение следует... What's up? It's funny. Jen keeps saying the forms she needs weren't filled out, but they were. personally I don't I don't know what to make she also she was on a call this morning with JB and the same thing came through to me so just to be sure Jack our zero sorry six four one six four zero is the link for today correct I just joined it and I pretty should be good no we have thank you thank you very much Sorry, let me put my two on there. I better two. Yeah, 1640. Good, okay. I'm in that. I have 1640. Yeah, great. Okay. I just heard his feet go downstairs My friend from New York, she drove across the country. Wow. She's a really great practitioner and she's studied with Hector and she's a partner actually. She's a musician and has like all these production skills. I want to say I don't think we can get too hopeful about downstairs even though I want to ask Scott I don't think I'm not that hopeful about it I think that's probably long and it looks great yeah so i was thinking the same thing for for yeah because i doubt it that scott he's so protective of the stuff downstairs like he doesn't say you see yes and michael is shooting upstairs i thought about it after we talked i thought wait a minute those guys are raiding the stuff downstairs to bring it upstairs to shoot and we're not allowed to touch downstairs Anyway, I'm just leaving it. Yeah, or I could buy a backdrop for the house. I just wouldn't have done that. Nah, well, I think it's probably just... Okay, we are recording. We're live, guess you're Michael Roach. Oh, wait a minute. Okay, hang on. I got to find my... Okay. Yeah, okay, here we go. And I'm going to share my screen, right? Oops. Thanks Jack. Okay I'm gonna mute myself Geshe-la. Okay, there's something wrong with, let's see here. Hang on, hang on. Hmm, there's something strange about this. Hang on. I'm going to have to restart my word. Hang on. Honey or Jacqueline, can you remind us where we are in the big scheme of things? What part maybe? Yes, we're starting part seven today in chapter one. i'm sorry my words are hang on and the title of this part is spiritual roadblocks and yeah like a computer and it seems to be we're having one right Yeah, it's really strange. Hang on. Come on. Come on, honey. Okay. All right. We're going to try. okay does that look good yep that looks good to me okay here we go uh it's on class seven of chapter one of the yoga sutra and it is called spiritual roadblocks and here's the verse is yes the verse is kind of monstrous and sorry about that but since it's about obstacles it's probably good that the verse looks like some obstacle and I broke it up for you here and let's go down here I'll just read the verse, obstacles, I'll read it in Sanskrit. Vyadi styanasasaya pramadalasya virati branti darshana labda bhumikatva navastit advanicitta viksepastit antaraya. So the big word here is antaraya, which means obstacle, okay? And the English is obstacles occur when the mind is distracted, and death can be caused by illness, fogginess in the mind, having doubts, carelessness, laziness, mistaken views of the world which are left uncorrected, failing to reach specific levels, or not being established in them firmly. Okay, and so it's all about obstacles. And the Sanskrit for obstacles is antaraya, which means kind of like something that comes between you and your goal. Like you can say interference, I like to think of it as interference. So antar is the root for inter. So it's like interference, they interfere between you and your goal. And there's a whole list of them. So here we go. Basically, this class is built around the structure of those obstacles. And it just kind of just goes through them, straight through them. Later. Okay. Naaman talked a bit about the first of the eight spiritual obstacles mentioned by Mr. Master. Sorry, not Mr. Hang on. okay okay all right uh the first obstacle mentioned is illness uh which debilitates us and can prevent us from doing our regular spiritual practice so some of the suggestions i have about vyadhi right which means sickness in tibetan it's nawa and in in in tibetan it's one of the four great sufferings of life kegan nachi right birth aging sickness and death right and i think it really really can shut down your spiritual practice it can shut down your yoga practice for sure um and i i think first of all it's important just learn to stay cheerful when you're sick so as you get older like grandpa mike uh you learn that uh not to get too serious with yourself when you're not feeling well like uh you know it happens and and it happens to everybody and it's important i think to stay cheerful and not to get you know serious about it when you get sick. Veronica tells me that males are more likely to announce that they're sick to the woman of the family and they think it's super important. And she says women just get sick and then keep doing their thing. So anyway, I think it's important in this case to act like a woman and be tough about not feeling well. And you know most of the time you can just work through it. And I think if you're gonna be an inner and outer yogi you have to learn to deal with illness. And then do as much practice as you can even when you're ill. So it doesn't mean hurt yourself and I think especially when you have an injury you should know when not to do your yoga. but and I think the big point I would make if I was going to teach this one a person who does yoga regularly get doesn't get sick very often you know like I think a person who does yoga regularly is almost immune to colds and and like stomach problems and things like that because of the massage that your abdomen the skinning and i guess just the pranas moving well i i after i started doing yoga i rarely catch colds or or get uh stomach aches or things like that so i think it's true that illness can be a illness can be a serious block to your yoga practice but also your yoga practice is a serious block to your illness and so i think it's a good sales point for yoga practice i think people who do yoga regularly don't get the serious, they're much less likely to get the serious, what they call rich country diseases of obesity. And then from obesity, diabetes, and heart problems, blood pressure problems. These are, you know, yoga is going to, I think your platform is going to become very important for the whole world. And China's obesity rate is shooting up like crazy. Like it used to be almost zero. People wrote books about how well the Chinese ate. Like the China diet book is, I don't know, it's a 20 year study about how well Chinese people eat. And now that's all been changed. If you go to China, you see people eating really badly and I think after Mexico and the US now China's is one of the highest rates of child obesity diabetes heart problems so I would if I was gonna teach this one I would I would make I would talk about all of that how yoga is almost gonna cure you know it really is almost a panacea for being overweight, diabetes, heart disease, and like that. So if you do yoga regularly, you're not going to get this obstacle to yoga. Okay. And I think with meditation and things like that, when you have small pains like back pains or other kinds of problems, you just have to learn to keep going because it doesn't get better. Your body normally doesn't become less painful the longer you live in it so you might as well work do work when you can work work on your spiritual stuff while you're healthy because the the tendency is for the body to break down no matter how well you take over care of it it inevitably it breaks down okay so this is a picture i had trouble finding a hurdle, a nice hurdle picture. The nature of royalty, the nature of copyright free images is that it's hard to take groups of people. You have to get all of them to sign. That's why they cut their heads off here. So maybe you could find a better image of a race. And then here's a sick person. Also, I think when you, personally, if I'm starting to get sick, and I do my yoga, it often stops it. Sometimes it makes it worse, okay? And also, I think illness teaches us humility. If you're a very sort of arrogant person, and you get sick, I think it always makes you more humble. And it also teaches you urgency. And also, I think that the most beautiful thing is that you can use an illness as an excuse to do Tonglen. So I think that would be a beautiful thing in this question, if somebody wanted to lead a Tonglen meditation and say, look, illness is a great opportunity to do a Tonglen meditation. And I'd still like to see us put many meditations in between these questions. Okay. So I think it'd be a great place like here. You know, someone could lead an illness. Tonglen here. And I've had many students use this in the hospital. They've been seriously ill. I had an operation last year on what we call gallbladder. And it's a great opportunity to practice taking on other people's pain. Okay. Okay, second of the eight obstacles. And it says, talk about the range, okay? We're going to talk about that. It's called stiana. Did I spell that right? I think so. Yeah. yes Tiana in Tibetan it's mukba. Mukba means and by the way the Tibetan translations are extremely accurate so and they give all the flavors of a word so if you if you know some Tibetan you can use this incredible Sanskrit Tibetan dictionary that we have input it's massive and it gives you flavors of a word. Anyway the two Tibetan translations most common are Nyi and Mukpa. Nyi means to be sleepy and Mukpa means fogginess. So here you see an example where the Tibetan translation options for ancient translators will give you a good flavor of the ancient Sanskrit. Okay and I tried to find a person who is a little bit spaced out and kind of not thinking about anything. And the first meaning of stiana is how you feel after you eat too much and your mind is not clear. What's the other word for that in Tibetan? For $20. Who said? Yeah. Who said that? Who is that? Ezra said it. Ezra. Okay. Good job, Ezra. Tell your dad you've got good genetics. Okay. So 20 bucks. Who's going to be my money person? Christina Kassica? Can you be my banker? Can you be my banker? Xiaoping doesn't. Okay, 20 bucks for Kramer. For Ezra, okay. Yeah, for his college fund. Okay, and then you talk to Ellie, okay? She'll give you the money. Okay. All right. So you're an official banker. Another kind of meditation is, of course, You sit quietly and still during meditation, but you're just spaced out and you're not fighting the tension. Somebody has to turn their microphone off. And I would hit hard on this, you know. It kind of goes, it's worse than the meditation traps we talked about. The meditation traps we talked about were kind of, you know, going deep with no content. And this one is just getting very quiet, but to be spaced out, and you actually are not attentive. You are not, your mind is not clear, okay? And this is supposed to be one of the most dangerous obstacles in meditation. So what kind of state of mind do we want? I think it's very important to try to sell yoga teachers, yoga practitioners, a very bright, clear, happy, attentive, calm state of mind. Like not just calm, but attentive. You meet people who are calm and they just seem like they're halfway asleep, you know. So I think calm, but bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. And I like to say that we reach that state of mind when we're reading a really good book. Or maybe you're watching Netflix and you're really, really into it. And that's actually a high state of attention. And I think real yogis bring that kind of attention to everything they do. And that's tied to how well you sleep and how well you eat and how well you exercise. okay so i would try to end that section by talking about how it feels to be curious bright happy attentive okay like that all right uh third one name the third type of spiritual obstacle and talk about its very desirable sister and this is all about doubt which is sanchaya john there's another word something like that that means distraction maybe more like okay so there's two words in tibetan the common word is tatsom and the ancient uh archaic word which no to but would know is is somni and it means doubt and you know we like to say there's good doubt and bad doubt and this is a great opportunity to talk about healthy doubt and and having uh and and not just accepting everything a teacher tells you whether it's philosophy or or how to do an asana you know like you should have an open mind and you should listen attentively to your teacher but i mean we've all if you've taken a lot of classes you get the opposite advice from many different teachers in them and many many teachers will swear that you have to do an asana a certain way or you're gonna you know you will die in six years or something and and uh you know you you if you take a lot of yoga classes you start to you you start to doubt what people tell you so there's there's a bad doubt and there's a healthy doubt sometimes the weird advice that you get in yoga you know i had a teacher before three-year retreat that she taught us to do uh what's the thing where you pull a rubber tube through your nose. I don't know. Sutraneti? Yeah. Yeah, Sutraneti. You know, and I thought it was kind of wacky and kind of hippie thing. And then I tried it and it was wonderful. And I did it every day for three years. And, you know, if someone teaches you to correctly, it's nice. So the third kind of obstacle is a doubt that you have not been willing to face it and resolve it, okay? But what makes it a bad thing is that you are lazy about deciding what you're going to do about this doubt, okay? So a doubt is a good thing. Doubt is a healthy thing. But to let a doubt go on and on and not deal with it, It's like having a wound on your body and you just let it get worse and worse. You know, I get a crack in my foot sometimes. If I put special cream on it, it goes away in one day. If I just let it go, then it gets worse and worse. And it's like that. Doubt is like that. If you don't fix it, if you don't face it and fix it, it gets worse and worse. Okay. Then I give some famous examples of bad... I think a lot of people are on the fence about eating meat. And so I think most of us can see, if we just think for two minutes, we understand that there's tremendous suffering caused by eating meat but then we when it comes time to refusing meat at a meal we dither we can't decide whether we should actually refuse the meat or not so I of course we're capable of deciding about it but we're just lazy so lazy doubt has a big component of laziness in it, bad doubt. Okay, the sister of this bad doubt is healthy doubt. And this is a kind of critical thinking where you want to ask a question, you know, like about future lives, you know, it's hard to prove future lives. It's probably a good idea to stay open-minded minded about it. But it's also something that you should wait and decide on yourself, or maybe you could have an experience about it. There's a joke by Kedub J that, which is, you know, 600 years ago, he says, people in the West don't accept future lives. We are in Asia, we accept future lives. And I don't know anyone who understands why they're our future lives. They just believe it because their mom told them, or they don't believe it because their mom told them. So there are cases where you're not sure if something is true or not, then it's okay to wait. And I like this image of this guy's asking a question, and that's very, very ancient Indian philosophy. This idea of debating Tibetan monks, it's not a Tibetan custom. It's an ancient Indian custom. And Lord Buddha engaged in it extensively. And it's an institution in this lineage to debate a question and to encourage people to have doubts and encourage people to thrash out questions. And so I would say that that's in a cheerful way. And I want to say, I debated for, I don't know, 20, 25 years in the monastery. I only saw one real fight in 20 or 25 years. For the most part, people had a good attitude about it. And that's why we have a debate master who walks around and, you know, makes sure the young monks aren't getting unhappy or unpleasant during the debate. Okay. So, you know, healthy, cheerful debate is very much a part of this lineage. And people will not learn yoga well if they're not willing to question things. Okay. And I think we should throw in a plug for teachers being open to debate and allowing the students to question their behavior or what they teach or everything. Okay. I think it's a teacher's responsibility to be open to the doubts of the student, even about them personally, and not to get defensive about it. So I think that's a kind of maturity that you get as you go further in your teaching career. Okay, the last option for doubt is a famous quotation by Maitreya, which is, okay, if you work on a doubt and you can't resolve it, or you don't feel like you have enough information, or you need time to cook it, then you know think of Maitreya said you know just put it on the shelf and he emphasized emphasis on on not disrespecting the idea but shelving it for now okay but happily shelving it for now okay and she's I don't know she's putting something on the shelf Connie and John gave me a thing called the monk fruit sugar and a monk fruit powder is it called sweetener and I put it in the cabinet for I don't know a couple months and then finally Veronica asked me, what is this stuff? I said, well, that's some kind of wacko thing that John and Connie gave me. And she says, are you going to try it? And I said, well, no, I've tried Stevie and all that stuff. I don't like that stuff. Then she made me, we have these non-alcoholic fruit cocktails at night during the virus, so we can have a little fun. And she put it in there, it was incredibly delicious. And I looked it up and it's zero calories and you know it's perfect and it's natural, it comes from a fruit. So anyway it just goes to prove that there is a time that you can put something on the shelf and just let it sit there and then try it when you're in the mood. You can try it. I think Connie I'm going to have Kiariana in the cafe if we ever open. and if anyone ever comes uh which is two questions okay uh yeah so so when you have a doubt that's fine uh put it on the shelf but don't don't disrespect it don't don't make fun of it i've had many many cases in my long life where I thought something was bs and then later I started I found out I should be doing it so if you've lived you know more than 20 years or so I think just practically you learn to listen to people and if you don't feel like trying monk fruit sugar right now then just put it on the shelf but don't don't criticize it until you try it Okay. All right. Fourth kind of, so this point is that there's a sister of doubt. Desirable sister is healthy doubt and informed doubt and open-minded doubt. Okay. That's very much a part of the yoga tradition. Number four, what's the fourth kind of obstacles and what is a common cause of it? This is called pramada. And in Tibetan, it's called pag mepa, which means this guy has pag mepa. He put some toast in the toaster, and then he started to do something else, and he got sloppy. You know, he's not keeping his mind on what he's doing, okay? So we call it carelessness. And by the way, these, I think as Word knows from having studied in his mind-only text, the Sanskrit words for emotions and for mental functions, they are three, four, five thousand years old, and they change over centuries. They take on different meanings, and it's hard to pin them down. It's very hard to pin them down. it you have to read a lot of commentaries to get to get the real meaning sometimes so anyway uh i think another interesting if you're interested in tibetan is uh the negative is pramada and the positive is apramada non non-carelessness is mindfulness so if you're interested uh that's an interesting thing okay uh lose it means i have a constant awareness of higher goals so it doesn't really mean to leave a pair of scissors on your yoga mat or something like that it's not that kind of carelessness uh it's the kind of carelessness where you you lose you lose the point of why you're doing your yoga you know and and you lose the background feelings that you should have if you're going to be a good yogi. So, you know, there should be a background feeling while you do your yoga. I mean, for me, people tell me, keep somebody in mind while you do yoga. You know, think of all living beings while you do yoga. And frankly, for the first 10 years, I was just having trouble putting my foot in the right place. And, you know, it was kind of hopeless. Then it was another spiritual thing to feel guilty about, to add it to my list of things to feel guilty. I had a Burmese student once who ended up working for me at the diamond company. And he said, Michael, please don't teach me more spiritual stuff. I feel more, I have more things to be guilty than I'm not doing. So it's not like, I think from personal experience, It's really difficult to do your yoga and at the same time to really actively think about other people. I think when you pause in a pose, you can think about other people. So this is called in Tibetan, masimba. Masimba means it's in the back of your mind while you do your poses, that I'm doing this for a higher purpose. I might die during these poses, and these poses could affect where I go after I die. Those are all good thoughts. I think it's good to talk about how to keep a thought in the background as you do your yoga. Okay. So, pramata would be to lose those background thoughts while you do yoga completely. Like never think about any higher thing while you're doing your asanas, okay? And I took an opportunity here to talk about alcohol and drugs. It's one of the most famous obstacles to apramata, to mindfulness, okay? So I think it's good. It's a healthy thing, I think, on our platform to, especially those of us who have used them in our life, who have overused them in our life and it's it's nice to try to encourage younger yogis to to not to mess up their life with these things and not to mess up their practice with these things okay uh fifth obstacle is laziness okay for zero dollars what's the tibetan that's the only tibetan word that sounds like an english word okay except for bok chak and i don't know why but anyway uh the fifth obstacle is alasya okay and this is a little bit of a problem because uh it should be alasya which means not not active and lust comes into the English word lust and lascivious mean very active almost hyper so it should have been some negative words in Sanskrit become long A over centuries it became which should mean overactive but it's just a case where sometimes a short A will turn into a long A. And you should know that. Okay. I can think of it like Atman. Yeah, Atman itself should have been Atman. But that's another story. Okay. The fifth obstacle of laziness, which is that you don't feel like doing your daily practice. You all know what it feels like. And I think mainly, I don't know about laziness. It's just thinking I'll start tomorrow, you know, and I'll do my practice tomorrow. And I don't know. And my whole life, my antidote for laziness is just to get the mat out on the floor. And it's only happened once that I rolled out the mat and didn't do yoga. so uh or thinking you can start tomorrow i think you can start later if you try to get yoga in you know like you only have 45 minutes or something and then you have to go do something for somebody and uh if you try really hard to get it in even just 45 minutes then then you see it's a really nice thing okay so to me the antidote for laziness is to just try to smash it in somewhere and do some yoga uh try to do some yoga every day and then i think you get over your laziness okay so you could put in here your own tips for not being lazy about your yoga practice i think a very common tip is to do it at the same time every day another tip is to uh try to do it with your friends uh and things like that try to find videos that you're interested in to do it with? I think Erin told me she went to a conference of yoga teachers online and there's a big movement in general among even yoga type of people that they're okay now with doing these things online. And Vika Makarova was talking to DCI. we're having some dci filming also and she said my son who's 20 said mom you know why do you resist being an online person why do you why are you fighting it you know just swim online just swim on the online you don't have to have a physical body it's just kind of a an optical you know just go online and be be online and that's like your sixth skanda right uh your online self and i i hate that i mean i think it's terrible but uh but as far as getting your practice in i think uh having the ability to go online and find a good class when you don't have time to go to a real class it it helps to stop your laziness okay all right next one what's the sixth obstacle both from traditional text and from your own culture rate it compared to the other obstacles and then give the general sanskrit word for it and English cognitive, okay? The sixth one is avirati brantibharshana, which means uncorrected, mistaken viewpoints, okay? So a means not, virati means fixed or eliminated, and brantibharshana means broken. Fracture comes from branja, I think. And darshana, of course, is to view things. So in a simple way, you can compare it to broken eyeglasses. So looking at the world the wrong way is the example of the sixth obstacle. Okay. And we're going to discuss it from the point of view of traditional texts. And we're going to discuss it from the point of view of our own culture. Okay. And you'll see how we're coming. And then we're going to discuss how, what's its priority, you know? Okay. And there's two ways to get into cracks when you're talking about avirati brandi tarshana, which is you can get into, you know, broken eyeglasses. But if you want to go deeper, okay, it's the other crack on the toilet seat. And there's a famous example in the scriptures about looking at, especially for porcelain, okay, looking at a piece of porcelain like a sink or a cup, and you think it's cracked. You think it has a crack. And actually, you're looking at a hair that's stuck in your eye or even a scratch on your eyeball. So there's a very, very famous example. Trache. Say again? Trache. Yeah, trache. Yeah, you can say trache. A piece of hair that got glued onto the white cup. Or I couldn't find a hair on a white cup. I guess maybe I should have filmed one. I should have taken my camera, my own hair, but my own hair matches the cups well. So you're actually looking at something stuck to your own eye. So there's a difference between these two images. So the person who takes this one, you have to be sophisticated. And I love to ask people, do you want to go deeper? And it's a very famous thing to say in my classes around the world. And what I found is people respond to it very, very well. It's a very good thing to ask in any kind of spiritual teaching or DCI teaching. You say, you want to go deeper? And I don't know any country really where people will say, no, no, we don't want to go deeper. So I think it's a good excuse to say something that's going to confuse people. it's good to to put it at the beginning and say hey you want to go deeper and then they don't feel so bad if they don't understand it okay so uh that the point here is that there's a there's a defect in the instrument of perception okay here you can blame it on the glasses You know, there's a crack in the glasses. But here, the defect that you think is outside of you is really part of your body. Okay, you're looking at a scratch on your eyeball. What is that? It's one of the famous nine examples at the end of the Diamond Cutter Sutra. You know, there's a fault. on your eye on your cornea and you think everything has a crack in it okay so i think if you want to you could go deeper that way of course you can apply it to other people in your yoga studio who you don't like and you think they are loud or obnoxious or or they show off and actually you're just watching a crack in your own eye. It's part of you. What did Jesus say? You complain about specks of dust. It's easier to see the log in your brother's eye than the speck in your own? No, the opposite. It's easier to complain about a single dust spot in your brother's eye than the log in your own. Yeah, yeah. okay yeah yeah yeah and the fact that he used the i is very uh interesting okay so anyway um okay so i'm glad i didn't offer you money word i'm on a new uh i'm on a new campaign not to give word any money at all uh okay so here we go just kidding uh this here's this mistaken world views okay uh we had textual examples of these views are you don't believe in karma and you don't believe that doing good to others leads to good results or doing bad leads to bad results or you don't believe that you're going to continue on after you die or you don't believe that that by using yoga you can reach your highest potential physically and mentally and possibly help huge numbers of other people. We can say it that way, right? Okay. Now, there are wrong worldviews in his specific historical periods, okay? And I think yesterday, the foreign affairs school at Princeton that sent me to India the first time took Woodrow Wilson's name off the school's name. They removed his name from the college. the international affairs college because of his racist views and uh and i i think it's cool so anyway uh but i don't know how to tell people where i where i went to school anyway uh the founding fathers of the united states actually engaged in serious discussion about whether people of color were humans. And there are also discussions nowadays. And I don't know if we should go here, but I think a lot of the reason abortion is legal is because we like sex. And we just want to make sure we can have sex freely. Because I was there when it became unillegal. Anyway, maybe we don't go there. I think it's a very touchy question and it might not be something we're allowed to talk about in certain countries. Okay. Another modern example is, you know, I've had many, many people tell me that animals can't feel anything. Therefore, it's okay to eat them because when you kill them, they don't feel anything. And that's just a crazy worldview. That's a nice friendly example of a crazy worldview. And I looked it up today. Pet sales in the United States were $95.7 billion in 2019. I'm sure that exceeds our foreign aid, for example, to Africa or something. Okay. So that's sort of extraordinary. So in a country that spends now it must be up to $100 billion a year on their cats and dogs to say that they don't feel anything is insane. It's crazy. What is that, Jacqueline? Is that your cat? Arena's new cat. Oh, cool. Anyway, I think, you see, this is a great example. And maybe pets is better than abortions, I guess. And the thing about George Washington and those guys, I mean, George Washington's son inherited 600 slaves or something. We have a record of it. So, you know, maybe those are touchy or maybe they're good to talk about. But this one is nice and neutral, you know? Okay, so it means there are just certain opinions that we have in our culture, which are crazy, which are actually insane, demonstrably insane. And the real reason you eat an animal is that you want to. It's not that you really believe they can't feel anything. And there's a beautiful story. Benjamin Franklin, he was a vegetarian. He was an ethical vegetarian. and uh among other many other things and he he was on a ship to france to try to get money for the u.s revolution and uh and to father 50 children while he was there and uh and uh they got stuck in a doldrums the the ship stopped moving and people started fishing and they start cooking the fish on on the deck in a in brick in a brick oven and uh he smelled the fish and he was a bon vivant he loved uh eating and he was chubby because of that and uh and it smelled so good that his logic started to get twisted and he observed himself twist the logic. He said, I was sitting there smelling the fish, wishing I could eat it. And then I noticed them cleaning some fish. And when they cut the big fish open, a small fish came out of its stomach. So I said, well, logically, that means food chains are logical. And if a fish can eat a smaller fish, then it's okay for a human to eat a fish which is smaller than the human. It's completely logical. And then he ate a lot of fish and he overate. And then suddenly his logic collapsed on him and he caught himself being illogical. So this thing of self-illogical is where you want to go with this question. And this question is a hard one and it's an important one. And you really want to take people to the feeling that sometimes we just lie to ourselves. And sometimes we just bullshit because we're hungry. And we want to eat meat, you know, or something like that. Okay. All right. Good luck on that one. That's not easy. It's hard to do this one. It's going to be hard to do this one and give people the feeling that this is the root of all their problems you know I'm thinking Anatole has had so many hours with with my videos about that you might maybe you want to try it I don't know okay uh so darshana means viewpoint and it comes from dersh and English cognitist dragon which comes from old word for snake dersh because dragons were believed to have an evil eye Okay. And Dragoon comes from that, which is the mountains where I did my three-year retreat. Okay. Okay. Seventh obstacle. What's the seventh obstacle and how does it relate to six wonderful qualities that we will one day perfect? So I used, this is a labdha bhūmi katva. Okay. Say a labdha bhoomi katva okay bhoomi katva long bho okay and you know bhoomi from uh uh the mandala offering right om vajabhoomi ahum right bhoomi i offered the ground of gold okay uh diamond ground okay and uh uh means not labda means attained in tibetan it's matopa and sa okay uh sa ish okay And what it means is, I took this question quite purposely to the six bhumis, to the six bodhisattva bhumis. And this person reached one bhumi, but they still have more to go. And the idea is there's six activities that a yogi should become good at, okay? And I don't think you have to say, bodhisattva, but I have to say that the word bodhisattva is English now. I think most people have heard the word, and I think it has a good rap in the West, or in America. The word bodhisattva is generally, you do hear people say he acts like a bodhisattva, which implies that he's a nice person or something okay so uh we could call it failing to reach specific levels okay which means that you don't go through these uh either these five paths which is the subject matter that we're in or you could say that 10 levels of a bodhisattva and the first six i think are worth mentioning uh perfecting giving, living an ethical life, refraining from anger, taking joy and doing meaningful things, meditation and wisdom. Okay. So I think it's a good place to do a mini sales job of these six kinds of activities. And it's very interesting that Lord Buddha would choose these six out of 84,000, you know, desirable actions. They must be super special. They must have super karmic implications okay all right so you can talk about that okay the final obstacle number eight but you think we're finished but we're not and i still have half an hour but i i think i can finish in 15 minutes okay by the way when you're teaching a group of people it's good to give them a time a time frame if you feel they're getting restless and the summer is very hot and uh and you say look you know we're almost done we just got 15 minutes to go I forgot to put the lady in here. Let me hang on. Oopsie. Oopsie, oopsie. This lady. This lady. Okay, and I was just trying to find a lady falling backwards. And the point is, the final obstacle is called an avastitadva. An avastitadva, all short A's. Okay, tva means the condition of something. It's probably T-I-O-N, like shun, okay? An means not, ava means very much, and stitta means good foundation, you know, not steady. so it means falling backwards it means you overcome an obstacle like laziness but you revert to it you fall back into it uh you degenerate you get you get through it and then you start doing it again okay so that's called okay and this is very common for all of us especially with our bad habits and uh we do small successes then we have to learn how to consolidate successes you know and they can include a lot of rejoicing that you're over a problem that you used to have or uh you know uh rejoicing that other people never had this problem and uh being uh what do you call it what were the two qualities of the practice had to be What were the two things the practice had to be? Sukha Sira? Abhyasa? Abhyasa? Vairagya. Abhyasa Vairagya. Yeah, but did Abhyasa have two parts? I don't remember. Okay. Three parts. Anyway. Say it again. Satu Dirgakala. You have to do it for a long time. you have to do it without gaps and satkara correctly okay good so three things right okay good uh anyway so this is called consolidating your successes consolidating your progress and um so on of us so avastetadva means uh consolidating your practice okay uh i should put here not okay uh and don't fall back you know don't i don't know if you're like me there's poses i learned to do i finally got into a pose and then i didn't keep it up and then I lost the pose. So I think it's not inappropriate to take this to your asana practice. And we work hard to learn a pose and then we get lazy after that and we don't repeat it. And then we fall back from the ability to do it. We lose the ability to do the pose. Okay. So we have to have patient, modest practice. Okay. almost finished you guys i have something really sexy for you at the end i'm just warning you uh uh so what's the general wording that master patanjali if you understand sanskrit uh syntax he he uses some wording that covers all of these obstacles and that's chitta vikshepa which means distraction okay losing your ability to keep your mind on your asanas or your pranayama or or your six perfections okay getting distracted and i like this photo why it's dangerous to text and drive yeah connecting life yeah who said that that's colorado hi colorado uh yeah that's a 30 answer sometimes people okay christina it's a alex 30 answer right uh in other words it's a better answer than i expected from anybody um yeah it's dangerous to get distracted in yoga okay it could lead to disastrous consequences I was hearing on the radio when I was driving, but I wasn't moving the dials, okay? And they're talking about a kid who killed I don't know how many people in his car because he was texting. And they discovered it much later. A policeman reconstructed it. it took he it bothered him and it took him like two years of phone calls to the phone company and things like that he figured out that the kid had called his girlfriend and then killed many people with his car so uh and this this is the worst this accompanies all on tarayas okay all all into all obstacles and the tibetan words here which mr kramer will appreciate our gig and part of chippa part dude chippa means to break in in between uh and that's untar okay untaraya okay like bardo comes from that okay all right Now in yoga, we're using different interconnected levels of our being on the outside and the inside. And in this verse, really when you look at the list of antarayas in this verse, so I'll go back up to the top. you look at this list, he's connecting illness and distraction. He's connecting the physical condition of the body to the mental condition of the body. So if you're sensitive, you can see that he's crossing over between physical obstacles and emotional obstacles. And I don't think it's inappropriate to start drawing the connection between prana and the body, you know, lungsemjupa chippa and the mind. It's the connection between prana and the thoughts, because he referred to it here. In the same breath, he's talking about physical illness, bodily illness, and he's talking about mental states. So when I first taught this course, I use that as an excuse to get into this very important concept of Lung Sem Chupa Chupa. Prana rides on the winds. Sorry, thoughts ride on the prana. And I took this lady, I think posture, general daily posture. I like this. I have this thing about, you know, I still do ballet some and yoga. and I still try really hard to do yoga when I'm sitting at the computer or when I'm standing cooking dinner for Veronica. I will try to stand, I'll try to keep my symmetry of my posture, which is important for ballet. I just noticed after a couple years, after doing ballet for a few years, I noticed that when I stand at the stove, I don't stand symmetrically. And so I started to work on that. And I think that's a beautiful place to take people with their yoga. You know, talk to them. If they're a lot of the people who do yoga are the people who were good in sports, in high school or elementary school. And I think you can take that physicality to a sweet place where you say, look, if you keep your posture, if you're careful with your posture and how you keep your body, then that affects the prana. That affects your thinking. So if you want to be clear-minded and bushy-tailed, then sit up straight and stand straight when you're making dinner and just try to have an asana awareness all day. And so I think that's a really important part of yoga. It's maybe as important as an asana practice. So I would talk about the connection between the mind and the prana. This lady in the picture, she even looks dull. Her face looks dull, which is very judgmental, but I'm doing it. And her posture is poor. And in yoga, we would say her poor posture is blocking her prana, which is blocking her her mind and making her a little bit less bright okay so i would go there with this question okay i like to go to the connection between body mind body mind and mind body which comes from uh which book for 50 dollars which ancient book no i'm talking buddhist book abhidharma nice try but no cigar it makes me so happy doesn't pabanka ribauché get into it samana palasuta no okay for cancel the bets uh okay anyway uh which which kramer is going to translate for the next hundred years uh maybe okay so anyway uh there must be a body-mind connection and there must be a mind-body connection because when you get drunk you act stupid so that proves body-mind connection and then when you worry too much at work you get an ulcer in your body so those are two simple ancient examples of this principle that the thoughts are tied to the prana and the prana is tied to your posture okay and how and your yoga practice your asanas so uh you know here's a discussion of it and you can talk about it. I was going to use a horse and a horse rider to say that sometimes, you know, obviously the mind should control the prana. But if you have a good horse, he can lead the rider. So if you do yoga and your prana is moving smoothly, then whether the rider wants a smooth ride or not, they're going to get a smooth ride. So you can talk about it going both ways. And I think that's an extremely important sales point for your platform. Okay. And again, I don't know if I told you guys, I think I did. I had a chance to, Connie had Bob take me through the website and it's awesome. It's totally awesome. So if you don't got, if you guys don't get famous and rich, I don't know what's going on. It must be karma. but uh i i think i think this is a big sales point for yoga is that it it makes you a better business person it makes you have a better marriage um everything goes better with yoga okay so you can talk about the connection the interconnection of levels okay now last thing and then i'll let guys go early probably is when I first taught this I talked about the five levels of being and this is a theory called the what's it called for for a hundred bucks in Sanskrit Who said pancha kosha? Word. Word. Hey. I made it. Yeah. Okay. I hate it. I hate it. If I'd known you're going to say that, I wouldn't. Okay. Yeah, pancha kosha. Very, very, very famous yoga. It's one of the sexiest and it's one of my favorite yoga principles. And I heard it taught in different classes, in different places. and it was all confused and it was all mixed up and different teachers taught it different ways none of the explanations sounded very good to me i had trouble finding it in the ancient texts john probably somewhere and uh anyway there's a wonderful book i want to introduce you guys to it's called Shabda Kalpa Dhruma okay and it's an encyclopedia of Sanskrit and it's excellent it's really really good and it was made by this guy Raja Radha Kanta Deva who lived in the 1800s early 1800s he really was a Raja he was a son of a local king in British India. And he was fighting against racism in India. He was fighting for people respecting their own culture, because the British had done a lot to try to prove to people that Indian culture was stupid. And most people bought into the British idea. Even Gandhi tried to eat meat because he saw that his logic was that if the British can take over India, then they must be stronger and more intelligent. So if we eat the same thing as them, maybe we can be like them. And when he was a kid. So this great scholar determined to write an encyclopedia of showing how Indian culture was valuable. And he wrote a five-volume encyclopedia of great ideas in Sanskrit. Okay, so Shabda means sound, and that's the Sanskrit word for Sanskrit. The sound, right? And then Kalpa means everything you dream of. And druma means tree, wishing tree, jimba. So he called his book, The Wishing Tree of Sanskrit. You know, the tree that grants your every wishes. And it's so sexy and it's so beautiful. And we input it long ago. And, you know, you can use it to find cool ideas in yoga. It's a good source to use for unusual ideas in yoga. Here's the entry for Panchakosha. This is the entry in that encyclopedia for Panchakosha. And this is a theory that there are five envelopes or sheaths of being. And I like to call them the Matryoshka dolls. You know, like this doll goes inside of this doll, and then this doll goes inside of this doll, they call them russian nesting dolls they call them matryoshka which means the little missus okay and uh i love this thing i think it's super sexy it's really fun to teach and when you teach it it's kind of a very sophisticated lung sam dupa chupa presentation it's it kind of goes deeper So you can start with body, mind, mind, body. And then the next person is going to talk about Lungsem Jupa Chippa, that thoughts right on the prana. And then somebody can go into the nesting dolls, which is this really beautiful ancient theory about five envelopes of being, you know, like start with the physical body as the big doll. and then the next one fits inside of that, and the next one fits inside of that, and the next one fits inside of that. Okay? So let's go through them. Just, we have 15 minutes. And I enjoy teaching this, and I enjoy teaching it too. Just quickly. Yeah. Do you need some peace and quiet? I can do this. Okay. You guys, turn your microphone off, you guys. I was just asking, Deshla, how many speakers is this one? That's a great question. Maybe let's do it with a couple. I think it'd be nice with a couple. And it doesn't mean it could be two independent people who are not married, but just two friends. But I think it's too much for one person. It's going to run 10 to 15 minutes. It's going to be long. And it should be long, and it should be done with enjoyment. You know, it should be done like fine wine. Okay. Okay. So they're all called kosha. And the famous kosha we know is Abhidharma kosha. This word is a damka. What's that mean? It doesn't mean either thing. It can be spelled two ways, with a retroflex S or with a palatal S. Exactly. There's two legal spellings. It's like, what is that British spelling of something American? Or opposite. Color or color. Color, yeah, good. Yeah. So anyway, kosher can be spelled either way. Punching means five, and it came into the word finger. It came into the German fünf. So P becomes F and it means five. So it means the five envelopes, meaning I tried to find a picture of a big envelope and you put a smaller envelope in that and then you put a smaller envelope in that and then you put a smaller envelope in that. In the Abhidharma Kosha, in the first few verses, it's a story about a sheath for a knife or a sword. Okay. So it's the place where you keep treasures or the sheath in which you, you can call it the five sheaths or you can call it the five envelopes. Okay. Each envelope is called a kosha. So you can add kosha to each one of these five. So say, please repeat, Annamaya Kosha, Pranamaya Kosha, Manamaya Kosha, Visnyanamaya Kosha, and Anandamaya Kosha. Maya is repeated in each of the five, and Kosha is repeated in each of the five. So Kosha just means the envelope. Maya can mean manufactured from, or it can mean having that nature. Okay, so maya is repeated in each one. Made of food, made of prana, made of thoughts, made of awareness, made of emptiness, okay? So you can call maya is nature. I should put that here. Okay. Ana means food, okay? Kase in Tibetan, yeah. So Anamaya Kosha means the envelope of your being, which is produced by physical food. Okay. And in yoga philosophy, when you're talking about food, you're often talking about the physical breath, the outside breath, the gross breath, the oxygen supply. Okay, so Anamaya, kosha means the part of you which was produced by food, okay? And each of these koshas is an important part of yoga practice, right? I think you could summarize all yoga practice in these five. I think these five are extremely important for yoga practice. They come in the Hatha Yoga Padipika, but it's going to be years before we get there. So I think it's not inappropriate to teach them here. So the first outside gross physical body, which is the creation of oxygen and vitamins, etc., is the first matryoshka doll. It's the big one here. Now the doll that fits inside of her is pranamayakorsha. Say pranamayakorsha. And that's the inner breath. And I think it's very cool to connect the outer breath with the inner breath. You know, the condition of your breathing is one of the big factors in how good your inner wind moves. In fact, in Tibetan, they're both called wind. And they can both be called prana also in Sanskrit. So it's the inner movement of inner wind, which supports the outer envelope of the physical body. the oxygen is connected to the prana, is connected to the physical body. You can affect the prana by moving the body in the asanas, or you can affect the body by meditating on the prana, okay? Or pranayama. So I think that's really sexy. The third envelope is called Manomaya Kosha, And mano is an abbreviation of manas, which is, of course, related to the word mind. And from here on, you know, I'm choosing a system. I've heard many systems of explaining this, and I have selected one of them, because I think it's very powerful. And to me, it reflects the meaning of these words, okay? And I've heard a lot of weird explanations of these five. and they can't all be correct. So anyway, the thoughts riding on the prana, okay? The thoughts that ride on the prana. If you are breathing quickly and your prana is disturbed, then your thoughts are disturbed, okay? If you breathe irregularly, it makes the movement of prana in the body irregular, and that upsets your thoughts. If you kick the horse, the rider will also get agitated. Okay. So this is the idea of each kosha affects the next kosha. Okay. And you can go backwards if you want to make the, make the thoughts more peaceful. Then your prana will flow better. And then your physical breath will come down and you'll be, you'll be a happier person and a healthier person. Manas is a Yi. in Tibetan and so that's we get general thoughts agitated thoughts when the prana is upset because the breath is upset and then that's going to affect your karma recorder which is an Abhidharma idea all the impressions the combined impressions of the six consciousnesses write the karma onto the mind, the hard disk of the mind. They write to the hard disk of the mind. So you can think of four as the hard disk. Okay? In words, in words system, it's the The kunji. Kunji. It's the hard drive where the karma is written onto. Okay, so again when you teach this, it's a real challenge to keep people thinking about the matryoshka dolls, you know, how we're going deeper and deeper through the layers, through the peels of the human body-mind complex. okay uh and then finally there's the ananda maya kosha of course ananda means uh bliss and if anybody says ananda i'm gonna kill you okay and then you won't have ananda okay it's ananda okay why what's ananda death ananda is unhappy yeah ananda is the opposite of ananda because ananda means very happy ah ah means very happy okay and ah means not at all so if you say ananda you're saying totally unhappy because nand the root nand means to be happy so please correct it's a pet peeve of mine it makes me un-ananda if you say ananda okay anyway uh this is called the bliss the bliss envelope which i'm taking uh totally because i want to because it's possible to take it as deton which is the combination of bliss and emptiness so this is the inner being of the inner being of the inner being of the inner being and this is the white empty canvas that your karma writes onto. This is the blank parts of the hard drive, okay? This is the available space in the hard drive and it's emptiness, okay? And it gives the karma a place to play out, okay? So ananda means bliss envelope, okay? But you can hear many, many other explanations of it. Those are fine for their lineage it's fine uh but this is how we're going to read it for this lineage okay and and and i did work on it very hard for for years and so anyway this is one of my favorite yoga teachings to give i have done whole weekends based just on these five and you can easily take these five to an entire presentation of the three principal paths for example it would be very easy to or to give a dci uh it'd be easy to give a vip dci teaching for a weekend uh using the puncher kosha the five envelopes okay excuse me question just a little bit um the difference between three and four is a little fuzzy for me especially kind of how to do it from you know like a higher school point of view if you're teaching people a middle way emptiness you know i'm a little bit funny on how to do yeah the connection between three and four and how to do a four without necessarily doing a fashion consciousness oh yeah i agree and uh this is the you know, this is where other explanations of these five get really fuzzy, you know, and I personally, I would say, Sempa, you know, Sempa Iquileno, I would say, I would like to present it this way. I would like to present it as a logical progression, which I admit is, what do you call it? is enforced upon the fire, okay? So you breathe, and that affects your prana. If you breathe smoothly, your prana is smooth. If the horse is riding smoothly, then I would say the, what do you call that? The moment-to-moment thoughts you have. I like this. I don't like this he's ugly she's nice okay uh the the jumble of thoughts advantageous thoughts in the mind that come and go from moment to moment uh they are stirred up by the condition of the prana so i that's how i would present it so that's how i present three so three is not general awareness three is like sam chungs almost uh it's like mental mental events okay And then four is just the general ability of the awareness of the mind, you know, to listen to the thoughts. So you can say the witness mind if you want, maybe. Maybe it'd be cool to say witness mind. And then inevitably, the witness mind is changed by what it hears. And if you want to go deeper, you want to go deeper? hey think yes yes yes think of number four as a mirror uh which is general your general awareness of all your thinking and then uh number three is uh indentations in the mirror okay so it the the separate thoughts you have all day twist the mirror of of your awareness and then you start to see the world as threatening you become paranoid or or you start to see the world as angelic and you reach tantra but number three, twist the mirror of number four. It's a very beautiful concept that you could play with. You know, events in number three, separate events of consciousness, separate events of thought, impact on the mirror's shape for the next day. And you either see people as being mean to you, or you see people as being divine. depending on how three impacts on four because you carry four to the next day number five then sort of what four would be if three were replaced by virtuous objects like if instead of random adventitious thoughts you have emptiness or compassion as the main object of pure awareness then do you have detong yeah and i would say uh see i'm emphasizing the tongue in detong so because the sanskrit word is day uh so that's why that's my justification for saying it's emptiness it's it's the classic uh it's a reference to the classic combination of bliss and emptiness okay so uh i take five as the white space on the screen that's gonna allow events to happen which mess up your breath which mess up your prana which mess up your thoughts which messes up your recorder which places new objects on the empty which mess up your physical, you see breath, and it's a cycle. So if you want to, you could take this to a cycle, and you could take this to a cycle. Steps number three and four, they mess with the instrument that you use for perception. They scratch the eyeball. three and four scratch the eyeball. And then you start seeing broken, you start seeing cracks in the porcelain at number five, because five could go either way. You see? Anyway, you can play with this. This is a cool thing to play with. And it's very, very, it's one of the most beautiful teachings of the yoga tradition, in my opinion. Okay, we're out of time. If one could play with that. does that mean it would be inappropriate to play because it says ananda right yeah like it's tempting to say that this is a state of mind which is perceiving emptiness yeah definitely definitely as opposed to itself but you can yeah definitely awesome yeah you could easily go into i mean you could go into just uh the goal of yoga which is is kind of you know half mind and body you know so yeah anyway we're just gonna take this it's super sexy and i think all of you it might be fun you know it might be fun to have uh different takes on it by different people you know it might be fun to have different people say here's how I take this verse and then somebody else could say you know I know Ben took it that way but here's how I would take this verse these five and and I think it wouldn't be inappropriate to to have a episode what episode what's the number episode 11a 11b and 11c and it's kind of the emptiness of an idea you know let let three different personalities of people interpret these five uh in their own way and make it part of our website of our platform you know here's three ways to take the kosha you know i think it's sexy you know and it's a statement on emptiness really a lot of there's a famous reference to sanskrit as cloud in the sky because everybody sees a different animal in it you know so uh okay i'm gonna i gotta go okay i'll see you guys a few just a few announcements i do want to say i heard that uh aural and lydia and who is the third person might be tim tim are doing a lot of work on the side the groups that are going to be working on off the website. And I have to say, recently I was counseling someone who, there's certain people I counsel like once a week on phone. And this person's been having serious family troubles for quite a while. And they said that Tim's long-ridden group saved their life, you know, that they had a group to fall back on. And they said their group is still going. And every time there's a big blow up in her relationship, that the group gives her a huge support. So I think that's a very, you know, I'm a person who enjoys the text and the theory, but I think Tim, Earl, Lydia, if we can have a robust support system between the people, then the website is really amazing. The platform is really amazing. So thank you for the hard work. And Geshe, what about next Saturday? The 4th of July. 4th of July, we have to pick it off. I'm not going to do this. I'm going to go and have a peek. Okay, everybody heard that, right? Next Saturday, there is no dress rehearsal. It is a day for the 4th of July. And I just want to share screen for a second. I want to show you this amazing thing that will happen on Wednesday. So we go live on Wednesday and Wednesday afternoon on July 1st, 4 p.m. and 7 a.m. in China. Geshe Michael Roach will lead our yoga class. I don't think I can get my COVID tummy down to that by Wednesday. We don't care. you can wear a girdle all right okay thank you Geshehla thank you everyone okay see you guys later forget to sign honey okay cool by the way Connie what level do I is it like a which what kind of level I would say medium medium or all levels all levels if you could okay all right that means I can't show off every the few poses I do do well okay well please even show that we we're happy to see those being shown off too okay all right okay okay you can have a spotter we can have for you and things like that if you choose who you would like as a spotter for that day oh people I can yeah you can do it at home and we can still have spotters we have the technology okay just remind me ten times so I don't I don't miss it okay we'll do thank you Geshehla okay anything else Jack you'll be getting an email for a voucher soon so please sign up for a free membership so you can attend did you guys hear that uh getting a uh a voucher for a free membership so please sign up so you can attend thank you and sign up for this um part seven talk parts are going episodes are going fast Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Ava. And thank you so much, Nick and Aaron, for the entertainment with Amelie. Don't thank us. Thank her. We're just trying to keep her alive. Look, there she goes. This episode, this whole part up into the drive as soon as possible. It's already there? Are you recording? we're getting all the details together for part seven angelica okay bye everyone